Example sentences of "to do [is] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And what we are trying to do is attract other business into that floor space . |
| 2 | All we 've been asked to do is secure this ship until help arrives ; which should n't be longer than this time tomorrow . |
| 3 | What I am trying to do is identify genetic potential long before the birth of the infant , and therefore long before he has been affected by his environment . |
| 4 | All you have to do is identify those plants and send in your answers on a postcard together with your name and address . |
| 5 | So we 'll do , let's just split into two groups , one group to have a look at aggressive people , one group to have a look at passive and what I 'd like to do is identify any groups . |
| 6 | The one thing he wishes not to do is to arouse defensive attitudes . |
| 7 | What you have started to do is to create this place of support and satisfaction in yourself : you 've begun to make room in your mind for your writer-self . |
| 8 | What we are now trying to do is to explain that variation in cost . |
| 9 | What I 've , what I 've tended to do is to do two B and two E |
| 10 | Sunsoft says all it has left to do is upgrade localised versions of the software from Solaris 2.0 to Solaris 2.1 : German , French , Italian , Japanese and two Chinese editions are due . |
| 11 | Er all he 's got to do is score more goals . |
| 12 | If children become bilingual by being immersed in French in Canada , then perhaps all we need to do is to immerse Chinese-speaking children in English in Hong Kong to achieve the same effect . |
| 13 | ‘ All you have to do is answer one question . ’ |
| 14 | All you have to do is answer five questions and write a short tie-breaker to give you the opportunity of winning the title and prize of Sainsbury 's Wine Taste Challenge Winner . |
| 15 | ‘ Look , all you have to do is press this button . |
| 16 | All you have to do is send two bar codes from any two of our nursery products , fill in this coupon and we 'll send you a copy of ‘ Keep Your Baby Safe ’ . |
| 17 | Then all he has to do is to press one digit , and the number is automatically dialled for him . |
| 18 | ‘ All I have to do is make one phone call to the plant manager and I can blow your cover . ’ |
| 19 | Well presumably with , what we 're trying to do is create some sort of alternative family units , we do n't want , although , er , laudable what the youth service does , is , we would n't want , if they do n't want to plugged , clubbable together , if , if , if , if the , the unit could provide that , or provide alternatives to pick up the , the correlation between that and , and ordinary normal family unit , I would hope that that would have been the best way forward , erm , er , because often some youngsters are in this situation because they , they have n't found the , that sort of provision has been helpful for them . |
| 20 | The best thing to do is to channel this concern in a positive way by helping them practise revision and exam techniques at home . ’ |
| 21 | What the teacher is trying to do is to guide each pupil into developing a set of mental models which have been found by experience or experiment to be useful in understanding technical processes . |
| 22 | The most destructive thing to do is to take complicated swing theory or swing movements onto the golf course . |
| 23 | I have not said clear away , it is not the end of the lesson and some of you have not worked hard enough to make the end of the lesson now if you do n't want to make the whole poem rhyme , what you might want to do is to put two lines together at a time and have those rhyming , paired rhymes , rhyming couplets , you can do that . |
| 24 | The only thing left to do is to put wrecked cars on posts to confront people with the consequences of bad driving . ’ |
| 25 | What this is intended to do is to put structural change into it , to say to home owners , if you come to the area , particularly those built-up areas where there is such a shortage of homes , you can be sure that you will get higher rates and to answer another question , we are , a that would be applying to existing people as well as to er otherwise in the budget allowance for that . |
| 26 | They meant well , but the easiest thing in the world to do is to put difficult decisions off . |
| 27 | The best thing to do is set firm guidelines . |
| 28 | If we look at rule six , and we 've all been given rulebooks , if people have brought them with us , what we have to do is bend that rule so that it applies to branches , not members . |
| 29 | Girls often become very close to their mothers , consequently the last thing they want to do is to bring any form of unhappiness to their lives . |
| 30 | Given any list of variables y and finite set of constant expressions F , it is easy to construct a boolean unc which is true if and only if every element of y is in F. All we have to do is to introduce extra conditions of the form unc into the conditionals of the normal form , with an " escape " clause of |